Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
Dad running for NY-02 to make Long Island more affordable for working families. #LGM. #WideAwakes
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Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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What Jack said:
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
What Jack said:
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Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
January 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
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I would think it's the doxing trucks, death threats, and the Trump admin going after international students but that's just me.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Garber Faults Faculty Activism for Chilling Campus Debate and Free Speech | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said the University “went wrong” by allowing professors to inject their personal views into the classroom, arguing that faculty activism had chilled free speech an...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:04 AM
I would think it's the doxing trucks, death threats, and the Trump admin going after international students but that's just me.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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(1) Trump wants the Venezuelan oil
(2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production
(3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order
(2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production
(3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order
the entire thing was insane. it was like "you must be lying about sour crude because if this war was for oil, it must be worthwhile"
January 5, 2026 at 3:56 AM
(1) Trump wants the Venezuelan oil
(2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production
(3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order
(2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production
(3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order
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also, if i were advising, say, anthropic, i would tell them to draw extremely broad and aggressive marketing and messaging distinctions between the CSAM hate machine (xAI), the suicide machine (openAI) and the clippy-but-worse machine (copilot), and focus on being the buddhist codemonkey machine
the other tech companies working on AI will — not now, but eventually — regret having chosen not to draw a bright line between what musk is doing and what they're doing, and google, of all companies, really should know this firsthand, given how much tesla's self-driving informs opinions about waymo
January 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
also, if i were advising, say, anthropic, i would tell them to draw extremely broad and aggressive marketing and messaging distinctions between the CSAM hate machine (xAI), the suicide machine (openAI) and the clippy-but-worse machine (copilot), and focus on being the buddhist codemonkey machine
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Can we just stop and put this into perspective:
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
January 5, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Can we just stop and put this into perspective:
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
Part of the reason they attack Walz the way they do is he successfully figured out how to respond to this sort of shit. "Why are you freaks obsessed with the genitals of kids" can be easily reworked into a way to paint Republicans as out of touch weirdos on thousands of things!
Dem bigwigs are inclined to ignore this stuff from Trump, which they correctly see as provocation slop. But this instinct to turn the other cheek has failed us again and again. It has created a norm in which he can act like this. Force Republicans to talk about it. Make it uncomfortable for them.
Vile
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Part of the reason they attack Walz the way they do is he successfully figured out how to respond to this sort of shit. "Why are you freaks obsessed with the genitals of kids" can be easily reworked into a way to paint Republicans as out of touch weirdos on thousands of things!
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This semester I’m teaching a guided research seminar for undergraduates in which they will hopefully have the experience of using the internet as a place of discovery and connection, rather than as the hellscape of algorithmic distraction & rage bait it’s become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Internet bad
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 01/04/2026 · 30m
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January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This semester I’m teaching a guided research seminar for undergraduates in which they will hopefully have the experience of using the internet as a place of discovery and connection, rather than as the hellscape of algorithmic distraction & rage bait it’s become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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These new technologies are not going away, but there's value in learning how to use them for *our* individual purposes rather than allowing them to bend us to *their* attention-sucking and profit-maximizing purposes. Like, microwaves were good, but "better living thru a 100% microwaved diet" was bad
January 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
These new technologies are not going away, but there's value in learning how to use them for *our* individual purposes rather than allowing them to bend us to *their* attention-sucking and profit-maximizing purposes. Like, microwaves were good, but "better living thru a 100% microwaved diet" was bad
Just like me fr fr
Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Just like me fr fr
MAGA: "you libs are obsessed with Trump, you all have TDS!"
Also MAGA:
Also MAGA:
January 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
MAGA: "you libs are obsessed with Trump, you all have TDS!"
Also MAGA:
Also MAGA:
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The facial tic I’m developing from seeing people post that graphic showing Venezuela having the world’s largest oil reserves…
The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
January 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The facial tic I’m developing from seeing people post that graphic showing Venezuela having the world’s largest oil reserves…
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As ever was—the original America Firsters didn’t want us helping Britain in WW2 because they wanted us to be allies with the Axis again instead
MAGA's supposed "anti-interventionism" is actually pro-pillage and pro-plunder.
Trump says Venezuela's oil wealth "goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country"
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
As ever was—the original America Firsters didn’t want us helping Britain in WW2 because they wanted us to be allies with the Axis again instead
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January 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Hey, national Dems on this here b”site, I see a lot of you are having trouble describing objective reality. Here’s a freebie:
“Donald Trump is an adjudicated crook, rapist, and now a war criminal. We will stand against everything he tries to do, and will hold EVERYONE who enables him accountable.”
“Donald Trump is an adjudicated crook, rapist, and now a war criminal. We will stand against everything he tries to do, and will hold EVERYONE who enables him accountable.”
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Hey, national Dems on this here b”site, I see a lot of you are having trouble describing objective reality. Here’s a freebie:
“Donald Trump is an adjudicated crook, rapist, and now a war criminal. We will stand against everything he tries to do, and will hold EVERYONE who enables him accountable.”
“Donald Trump is an adjudicated crook, rapist, and now a war criminal. We will stand against everything he tries to do, and will hold EVERYONE who enables him accountable.”
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...what?
Hours after Venezuela operation, U.S. sent warning to governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia that their countries could be next.-Axios
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 PM
...what?
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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January 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
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Why is Trump committing serial murder in the Caribbean? So he can post images of boats being blown and get likes and retweets from fascist influencers. He's killing people because he thinks it'll make good posts - it's "based."
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why is Trump committing serial murder in the Caribbean? So he can post images of boats being blown and get likes and retweets from fascist influencers. He's killing people because he thinks it'll make good posts - it's "based."
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Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you
#1: You're a dumbass
#1: You're a dumbass
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Proud to present this pictorial thread of Jamelle Bouie insulting you
#1: You're a dumbass
#1: You're a dumbass
Normalize calling our opposition a bunch of craven liars at every opportunity and force the media to do damage control for them or to leave it unchallenged. We can in fact have an impact in the messenging war!
FOX NEWS: What are your expectations when you get briefings from senior Trump administration officials in the coming days?
GALLEGO: Well, they're just gonna lie
GALLEGO: Well, they're just gonna lie
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Normalize calling our opposition a bunch of craven liars at every opportunity and force the media to do damage control for them or to leave it unchallenged. We can in fact have an impact in the messenging war!